Word: whethers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the Isis: "We want no English pretender. God forbid. But if it is indeed their wish to return to England, we will give them such a welcome as they have never seen before. To the Duchess in particular, whether as her Royal Highness or just as the chosen wife of the man who for so many years served this nation as few have served it, we will show that courtesy is not wholly dead among the middle and lower classes of the British people...
Last week the Hahn report reached the U. S. and physicists sprang to their laboratories to see whether they could confirm it. Early this week the physics laboratories of Columbia and Johns Hopkins Universities, and of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, announced full confirmation...
...with the reasons implicit in her story. Her sense of failure in general comes from her waning popularity, and from a sense of personal shortcoming which she traces to the ominous state of the world, particularly as reflected in the spread of fascism and antiSemitism. But she cannot decide whether she or the world has gone in the wrong direction; whether she has not been serious enough, or whether the world has grown too grim. In one breath she confesses that her novels sold well because they were escapist. In another breath she accuses readers, and particularly critics (who ignore...
...Daimlers used by Britain's King-Emperor was added last week a new car, prescribed by his physicians as a precaution against colds on State drives in England's damp winter weather. The new, maroon-bodied limousine has expansive glass windows, a glass roof panel, so that, whether the King's subjects are cheering from the curb or hanging out of windows, they can see him and his family...
...simple two-hundred dollar contrivance made from an electric light bulb, a photoelectric cell and an oscillograph. On the principle that fear constricts small blood vessels in the fingers, prevents blood from freely circulating through the hands, Dr. Thompson rigged up an apparatus which would indirectly show whether blood vessels were constricted by measuring the amount of light which passes through a person's hand...